Proposed Rule2025-11272
Air Plan Approval; Texas and Oklahoma; Texas Regional Haze Plans for the First and Second Implementation Periods and Five-Year Progress Report; Oklahoma Regional Haze Plan for the First Implementation Period; Extension of Comment Period
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Published
June 20, 2025
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the comment period for the proposed rule "Air Plan Approval; Texas and Oklahoma; Texas Regional Haze Plans for the First and Second Implementation Periods and Five-Year Progress Report; Oklahoma Regional Haze Plan for the First Implementation Period" that was published on May 23, 2025. The proposal provided for a public comment period ending June 23, 2025. The EPA is extending the comment period to July 23, 2025.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 117 (Friday, June 20, 2025)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 26232]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11272]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R06-OAR-2025-0197; FRL-12217-03-R6]
Air Plan Approval; Texas and Oklahoma; Texas Regional Haze Plans
for the First and Second Implementation Periods and Five-Year Progress
Report; Oklahoma Regional Haze Plan for the First Implementation
Period; Extension of Comment Period
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the
comment period for the proposed rule ``Air Plan Approval; Texas and
Oklahoma; Texas Regional Haze Plans for the First and Second
Implementation Periods and Five-Year Progress Report; Oklahoma Regional
Haze Plan for the First Implementation Period'' that was published on
May 23, 2025. The proposal provided for a public comment period ending
June 23, 2025. The EPA is extending the comment period to July 23,
2025.
DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published May 23, 2025
(90 FR 22166), is extended. Written comments must be received on or
before July 23, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket No. EPA-R06-OAR-
2025-0197, at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot
be edited or removed from <a href="http://Regulations.gov">Regulations.gov</a>. The EPA may publish any
comment received to its public docket. Do not submit electronically any
information you consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI)
or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a
written comment. The written comment is considered the official comment
and should include discussion of all points you wish to make. The EPA
will generally not consider comments or comment contents located
outside of the primary submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or other
file sharing system). For additional submission methods, please contact
the person identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
For the full EPA public comment policy, information about CBI or
multimedia submissions, and general guidance on making effective
comments, please visit <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets</a>.
Docket: The index to the docket for this action is available
electronically at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>. While all documents in the
docket are listed in the index, some information may not be publicly
available due to docket file size restrictions or content (e.g., CBI).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Feldman, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region 6, Air and Radiation Division, SO<INF>2</INF>
and Regional Haze Section (ARSH), 1201 Elm Street, Suite 500, Dallas,
Texas 75270, 214-665-9793, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#145271787079757a3a597d777c757178547164753a737b62"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7a3c1f161e171b1454371319121b1f163a1f0a1b541d150c">[email protected]</span></a>. We encourage the
public to submit comments via <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>. Please call
or email the contact listed above if you need alternative access to
material indexed but not provided in the docket.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document wherever ``we,''
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean the EPA.
On May 23, 2025 (90 FR 22166), we published in the Federal Register
``Air Plan Approval; Texas and Oklahoma; Texas Regional Haze Plans for
the First and Second Implementation Periods and Five-Year Progress
Report; Oklahoma Regional Haze Plan for the First Implementation
Period,'' where we proposed to approve the following Texas and Oklahoma
regional haze State Implementation Plan (SIP) submissions as satisfying
applicable requirements under the Clean Air Act (CAA) and EPA's
Regional Haze Rule: (1) Texas 2014 five-year progress report and 2021
plan for the second implementation period; (2) portions of the 2009
Texas and 2010 Oklahoma plans that relate to reasonable progress
requirements for the first planning period.\1\ We have decided to allow
an additional 30 days for the public to comment. The original deadline
to submit comments was June 23, 2025. We are extending the comment
period to July 23, 2025. This action will allow interested persons
additional time to prepare and submit comments on the stated proposed
action.
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\1\ 2009 Texas regional haze SIP for the first planning period
submitted March 31, 2009; 2014 Texas regional haze 5-year progress
report submitted March 24, 2014; Texas regional haze for the second
planning period submitted July 20, 2021; and 2010 Oklahoma regional
haze plan for the first planning period submitted February 25, 2010.
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List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Incorporation by
reference, Intergovernmental relations, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone,
Particulate matter, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Sulfur
oxides.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: June 11, 2025.
James McDonald,
Director, Air and Radiation Division, Region 6.
[FR Doc. 2025-11272 Filed 6-18-25; 8:45 am]
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